What was new on this site: April-June 2002

In the section on Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
items have been added for
Burnell,
Criol or Kiriel (additional note concerning Margery's licence to remarry),
Eu,
Hungerford (additional evidence concerning the date of Anne's remarriage),
Southampton and
Talbot.

Added notes on the will of
Godfrey Giffard, Bishop of Worcester, dated 1301, which was printed in
William Thomas's A Survey of the Cathedral Church of Worcester (1736).

Links added:

Brief guide to medieval English genealogy:

Public records: Subsidies and other taxes:
Gazeteer
of Military Levies from the City of London, 1509-1603
(Dr. Ian W. Archer, Keble College, Oxford)
Although it contains no names of individuals, this is a very extensive
list, with full details and references to manuscript and published sources for each levy

History of Upminster [Essex] &
Cranham (Upminster Community Web)
Includes outline history of the manors of Gaynes and Upminster Hall,
and brief details of families that held the manors

John Aubrey,
The
Natural History of Wiltshire
(Project Gutenberg)
Text from the edition of John Britton (1847)

Modern biography and prosopography:
The Aldermen of the City of London: 1422-1509
and 1509-1603 (Pat Patterson)
Chronological lists, with brief biographical notes, from Alfred B. Beaven,
The Aldermen of the City of London, vol.2 (1913)

Heralds' Visitations and the College of Arms:
On Nigel Batty-Smith's United Kingdom Genealogy site:

The Visitation of the County of Devon
In the Year 1564, with Additions from the Earlier Visitation of 1531
Page images, from the edition of F.T. Colby, 1881

The Visitations of Hertfordshire made by Robert Cooke, Esq., Clarencieux, in 1572, and
Sir Richard St. George, Kt., Clarencieux, in 1634, with
Hertfordshire Pedigrees from Harleian MSS. 6147 and 1546
Page images, from the edition of W.C. Metcalfe (Harleian Society, vol.22, 1886)

The Visitation of the County of Worcester made in the year 1569
with other pedigrees relating to that county from Richard Mundy's collection
Page images, from the edition of W.P.W. Phillimore (Harleian Society, vol.27, 1888)

Miscellaneous: Urban and guild records:
Origins.net
has added apprenticeship records from the 15th century and later, from
the companies of Cutlers, Feltmakers and Brewers, to its
pay-per-view database

Medieval English families on the internet:

Asthorpe:
Hemyock Castle -
Asthorpe Family Line (Hemyock Castle)
Some notes on Sir William Asthorpe or Hasthorp of Hemyock, Devon (d.1399),
and some possible relations

Links:

General:
Plantagenet Country:
Ancestors of Elizabeth of York 1465-1503: Genealogies, portraits and brief biographies
(Leo van de Pas/Brigitte Gastel Lloyd)
Listing of the ancestors of Elizabeth of York, with biographies and portraits for some individuals

Societies and Journals:

English
Historical Review (Oxford University Press)
Lists of contents from November 1998 onwards

The London Journal
(Centre for Metropolitan History, University of London)
Lists of contents from 1995, with abstracts from 1999

Heraldry:

Early Rolls of Arms (Brian Timms, Studies in Heraldry)

The Camden Roll, Part 1,
Part 2 and
Part 3

St George's Roll, Part 1,
Part 2,
Part 3,
Part 4 and
Part 5

Self-Representation in Heraldry
(Gerhard Jaritz, Department of Medieval Studies at Central European University, Budapest)
A detailed discussion of heraldry, with numerous illustrations, covering historical development,
basic principles, and the artefacts on which heraldry has survived.
On the same site are a Glossary of Heraldic terms
and a Bibliography of heraldry

13 May 2002:

In the section on Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
items have been added for
Criol or Kiriel and
Hungerford
(additional evidence of Anne Percy' parentage from evidence relating to a marriage dispensation).

Links added:

Medieval source material on the internet:

Modern works: history: Kenneth M. Setton, ed.,
A History
of the Crusades (University of Wisconsin)
Searchable text of the six-volume publication (1969-1989)

Probate records:

Fifty
earliest English wills in the Court of Probate, London: A. D. 1387-1439: with a priest's of 1454
(Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, University of Michigan)
Searchable text, from F.J. Furnivall's edition of 1882 (reprinted 1964) -
Early English Text Society, Original Series, vol. 78

Lincoln
diocese documents, 1450-1544 (Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, University of Michigan)
Searchable text, from the edition of Andrew Clark (1914). Most of the documents are wills,
in English or Latin; others include vows of celibacy and records relating to church estates.

Church records and religious houses:

Directory
of medical licences issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury 1535-1775 (Lambeth Palace Library)
The surname index includes more than 70 entries from the 16th century

Lincoln
diocese documents, 1450-1544 (Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, University of Michigan)
Searchable text, from the edition of Andrew Clark (1914). Most of the documents are wills,
in English or Latin; others include vows of celibacy and records relating to church estates.

Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
In progress - projects include the Medieval
Genealogical Registry, a referenced database of medieval genealogy
(see below), and
The Plantagenet Ancestry,
a revision of W.H. Turton's compendium published in 1928

Medieval Genealogical Registry
(Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)
A referenced database of medieval genealogy, in progress. The data are being compiled from high-quality sources,
and are searchable by surname, place and date. Note that data for only a few persons have been included so far,
for illustration purposes, but a significant number of sources - such as articles in periodicals -
have been indexed

Election-maps.co.uk (Ordnance Survey)
Although intended for election purposes, this site offers extremely detailed
maps of the UK, showing individual buildings

Given Names c. 1450-1650
and Latinized Given Names
(Judith Werner, OLD-ENGLISH)
A very extensive list of given names used in late medieval and early modern England, including
variants, familiar forms, Latin forms and abbreviations, and other notes; with an alphabetical index of Latin forms

8 April 2002:

In the section on Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
items have been added for
the identification of Thomas de Clare, lord of Thomond,
as a younger son of Richard, Earl of Gloucester
(articles on Angus,
Badlesmere,
Clare [England],
Gloucester and
Percy)
and for
Hungerford,
Kerry, and Kerry and Lixnaw,
Northumberland and
Plaiz (some additional notes from British Library, Additional Manuscript 39,373).

Links added:

Brief guide to medieval English genealogy:

Church records:
Canon
Law and Consanguinity (Nathaniel L. Taylor,
GEN-MEDIEVAL/soc.genealogy.medieval)

Medieval source material on the internet:

County and local history:
Draft articles from the Victoria County History:

Alvescot [Oxfordshire]
(VCH
Oxfordshire)

Black Bourton (including Carterton) [Oxfordshire]
(VCH
Oxfordshire)

Chelsea [Middlesex]
(VCH
Middlesex)

Clanfield [Oxfordshire]
(VCH
Oxfordshire)

Westminster [Middlesex]
(VCH
Middlesex)

Modern biography and prosopography:
The
textile industry in Essex in the late 12th and 13th centuries:
A study based on occupational names in charter sources
(Michael Gervers, University of Toronto,
DEEDS
Project)
As well as a detailed study of the textile industry in which
many people are mentioned, there are extensive tables
of individuals in the Appendices of Part 2

Public records: Common law records:
Emmison's Elizabethan Life [Essex]:
Disorder and
Home, Work and Land
(Mike Foster, GENUKI)
Indexes to names from
F.G. Emmison's Elizabethan life series,
from Disorder: mainly from Essex Sessions and Assize records (1970) and
Home, work & land:
from Essex wills and sessions and manorial records (1976)

Cornish
Wills proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
(Kathie Weigel,
Cornish
Genealogy Database)
Lists of 16th- and 17th-century wills, including
complete coverage for 1558-1604, 1620-1629 and 1653-1656;
there are also abstracts for some of the 17th-century wills

Emmison's Elizabethan Life [Essex]:
Home, Work and Land,
The wills of Gentry,
The wills of Merchants and
The wills of Yeomen
(Mike Foster, GENUKI)
Indexes to names from
F.G. Emmison's Elizabethan life series -
the first from Home, work & land:
from Essex wills and sessions and manorial records (1976),
and the other three from
Wills of Essex gentry &
yeomen preserved in the Essex Record Office (1980)

Funeral monuments:
S.O.M.I.T.
(Sources
of Monument Inscription Transcriptions; Gerald Parker, St Martin's Church,
Castleton, Lancs)
List of places in England for which monumental
inscriptions have been transcribed.
The bulk of these are modern inscriptions in churchyards,
but many transcripts include surviving medieval inscriptions
inside churches

Church records and religious houses:

Emmison's Elizabethan Life [Essex]:
Morals
and the Church Courts
(Mike Foster, GENUKI)
Index to names from
F.G. Emmison's Elizabethan life:
morals and the Church Courts, mainly from Essex Archidiaconal
records (1973)

Proceedings
taken in Winster Church [Derbyshire] regarding the Consanguinity of the
Parties to the Marriage of two of the Staffords of Eyam. Deed dated 1308 (Rosemary Lockie)
Text of an article by C.E.B. Bowles, from the
Derbyshire Archaeological Society Journal (1901)

Parish registers:
English Origins
has added entries from Somerset and Yorkshire to its
pay-per-view Boyd's Marriage Index database

Cheshire:
Calendar of Wills, Diocesan Registry of Chester, 1701-1800
[W.H. Price, ed., An index of the wills, inventories, administration bonds,
and depositions in testamentary suits now preserved
at the diocesan registry, Chester, from 1701-1800,
Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society vol. 52
(1905)]

Cheshire: Chester - Freemen of the City of Chester, 1392-1700
[J.H.E. Bennett, ed., The Rolls of the
Freemen of the City of Chester. Part I. 1392-1700,
Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, vol. 51 (1906)]

Cheshire: Quarter Sessions Records and other records
of the Justices of the Peace, 1559-1760
[J.H.E. Bennett and J.C. Dewhurst, eds,
Quarter sessions records, with other records of the Justices of the Peace for the County Palatine of Chester, 1559-1760,
together with a few earlier miscellaneous records deposited with the Cheshire County Council,
Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, vol. 94 (1940)]

Medieval English families on the internet:

Bicknell:
On Beacon Hill (Derek Bicknell; companion site to Marcus Bicknell's)
Contains material on medieval Bicknell families from
Somerset, Surrey and other counties, 13th century and later,
including:

Sidney Bicknell,
Five Pedigrees [1912] (extracts)

T.W. Bicknell,
[History
and genealogy of the Bicknell family and collateral lines]
(1913)

Brus:
Brus,
Thwenge and Fauconberg Documents and
Knights
of Edward I
(Mike Milsom)
Notes from various sources, including
A.P. Pure-Cust, The Heraldry of York Minster
(1890)

Edwards:
The
Edwards Family of Lelant, Cornwall
(Kathie Weigel, Cornish Genealogy Database)
Annotated pedigree, 16th century and later

Hockin:
The
Hockin Family of Gwithian, Cornwall
(Kathie Weigel, Cornish Genealogy Database)
Annotated pedigree, 16th century and later

Lacy:
Land
of Ilbert de Lacy from the Domesday Book of Yorkshire
West Riding
(Mike Milsom)

Roberts:
The
Roberts Family of Gwithian and Towednack, Cornwall
(Kathie Weigel, Cornish Genealogy Database)
Annotated pedigree, 16th century and later

Stafford:
Stafford
Families of North-West Derbyshire - Index to Transcribed Documents (Rosemary Lockie)
Staffords of Eyam, 13th to 16th centuries, and of Botham, 14th century and later.
Includes transcripts of several articles by C.E.B. Bowles, from the
Derbyshire Archaeological Society Journal:

Proceedings
taken in Winster Church regarding the Consanguinity of the
Parties to the Marriage of two of the Staffords of Eyam. Deed dated 1308 (1901)

The
Staffords of Eyam (1908)

Stafford
of Eyam - Foljambe Charter (1909)

Stafford
of Botham (1917)

Thwenge:
Brus,
Thwenge and Fauconberg Documents
and photograph of the tomb of
Edmund
de Thwenge (d.1344)
(Mike Milsom)
Notes from various sources, including
A.P. Pure-Cust, The Heraldry of York Minster
(1890), and five 14th-century inquisitions post mortem

Welles/Wells:
The Wells Genealogy Home
Page (John and Rosie Wells)
Including Index
to wills of Wells individuals 1300-1925,
proved in various courts, and also notes on Yorkshire families:
Robert
Welles of Galphay c.1516-1584/5 and descendants,
Wells
Families c1516 - 1900 and
A
chronology of events, mainly in
Yorkshire, involving various Wells
individuals and associates

West/La Warr:
West
Family Register (Letta Brock Stone)
Notes, including Lineage
of the De La Warr Family (La Warrs from the 13th and 14th centuries, and
their heirs the Wests - later Lords De La Warr - from the 14th onwards) and
Coats
of Arms of the De La Warr and West Families

Links:

General links:

The
Exciting Danvers Home Page (Philip Richards)
Database covering just over a thousand individuals,
many of them medieval

National Portrait Gallery
Includes a searchable
catalogue, with many online images.
To see search results dated between 500 and 1600, click
here